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Two in critical condition after monkey incident

A sister and a brother are lying in hospital in a critical condition after an accident that resulted from an attempt to save the life of a monkey. The incident took place in Boralesgamuwa last morning.

Three-wheel scooter driver Charles Abeywardena, 29 years, had taken his sister, Nirosha Abeywardena, 34 years, and her two children to Maharagama, to drop the children off at a tuition class.
They were returning home when, at the Pirivena junction in Maharagama, the driver braked hard to avoid running over a monkey. The animal, part of a troop, had fallen off a tree, and stray dogs had started to give chase, forcing the monkey to scamper across the road. The three-wheeler overturned, and was then hit by an oncoming van.

Ms. Abeywardena is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Kalubowila Teaching Hospital, and her brother was transferred yesterday to the ICU of the National Hospital in Colombo.

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